Marital Adjustment: An Examination of Some Predictive Variables in an Australian Sample

Abstract

Marital adjustment was measured by the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (1959) for 101 married couples, at least one spouse of each couple being a student of psychology at an Australian university. Value-systems held by subjects were measured by the Flowers and Hughes Values for Marriage Analysis (1975). Background data on previously significant variables were also collected. A positive relationship between people-oriented values and marital adjustment for individuals was noted, plus a negative relationship between self-oriented values and marital adjustment. There was no significant relationship between marital adjustment and congruency of value-systems between spouses. Background variables were not significantly related to marital adjustment.